Brass .44 mold from Accurate Molds Tom is the man lots of pictures

[10mmShooter]

Whats in the box???

121918

Happy dance happy dance its a brass .432 44- LRN-FP for my Henry

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Ah a thing of beauty

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warming her up(careful no more than 300 degrees)

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gotta have flat bases :)

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They are dropping right at 240-241 grs, with 12BHN alloy, and at .434, then I'm sizing them down to .432 for my Henry .44 should be nice and clean running at 1400 fps. I do think I need to polish my .432 sizer, its leaving lines on the bullets. Check out my multicolor lube,I'm switching from Thompson Blue angel back to Red Rooster, I need to use up the last of the Red Rooster since its not being make anymore. This one is the 2.9 inch blocks with just 3 cavs instead of 4, with handles it tips the scales at nearly 3lbs. Once heated it cast great, bullets drop with no more than a bump on the hand. I'm very pleased with Tom's work, the spure plate is impressive piece of thick steel as are the beveled blocks and nice face milling on the block faces provides plenty of venting. The heavy and thick sprue plate will help to make sure you get good base fill, by keeping heat in the top of mold, also the chamfer around the alignment pins look great, also the sprue plate attachment screws and springs would great as well. Excellent value at $140, also all three driving bands after sizing mic at .432 just what I was looking for.

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[dkf]

He makes really nice molds.

Whats the story with those two milled sections on the side of the one block?

[aussie-dave]

That mold and them boolits are just pieces of art and precision engineering.

Very, very nice!

[9w1911]

He makes the best IMO

[Slow Elk 45/70]

Very nice, molds and boolits, enjoy your shooting[smilie=s:

[knifemaker]

I also bought a brass 4 cavity mold from Accurate Molds that cast a 255 gr. 44 cal. boolit for my Lipsey Ruger Blackhawk revolver. That mold drops all 4 cavities at .434 dia. with wheelweight lead as I requested. The Blackhawk will put all 6 rounds into 1.5 inch or less group at 15 yards. I sized at .433 for the revolver and my Marlin 1894 44 mag. rifle. Only cast boolit that the Marlin would shoot into a good group at 100 yards as the barrel groove dia. was .432 on that rifle.

[Tallbald]

Speaking as a retired tool and die maker, I see beauty and precision in that mold. Don

[10mmShooter]

Here is what they look like mocked up in scrap brass, That front driving band makes setting the crimp a bit tricky took a few tries to get it right with out damaging the front most driving band and still getting a firm crimp. Seated to 1.585 with what I would classify as a firm crimp, you can tell I beat up the bullet because I had to reseat a couple times to set the dies. I had to seat and crimp with my RCBS 44 dies I used my RCBS Cowboy .44 expander(due to the .432 dia), my Redding seater and crimp dies were to tight to seat a .432 bullet with out making a mess of the brass/bullet.

In production you wont see that, they will look pristine

They cycled and chambered and ejected perfectly :)

121987

[Tar Heel]

Nice pictures. Thanks

[RedHawk357Mag]

DKF, I have a 360-160H mould with the milled blocks on the outside... No idea why, doesn't have any effect on the mold as this sucker can not make a bad bullet no matter how hard I work against it.

[ipijohn]

DKF, I have a 360-160H mould with the milled blocks on the outside... No idea why, doesn't have any effect on the mold as this sucker can not make a bad bullet no matter how hard I work against it.


Me thinks he mills the outside of the blocks to get a more even cross section of metal around the cavities and it also reduces the weight of the mold.

[JeffG]

Maybe a channel for extra sprue metal to run off back into pot? Probably not as messy.


He makes really nice molds.

Whats the story with those two milled sections on the side of the one block?